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Wizkid (musician)
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Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, better known by his stage name Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He started recording music at age 11 and managed to release an album with the Glorious Five, a group he. In 2009, he signed a deal with Banky W. s record label Empire Mates Entertainment. He rose to prominence in 2010 with the release of the song Holla at Your Boy from his studio album. Tease Me/Bad Guys, Dont Dull, Love My Baby, Pakurumo and Oluwa Lo Ni were also released as singles from the Superstar album. Wizkids self-titled second studio album, Ayo, was released in September 2014 and was preceded by six singles, Jaiye Jaiye, On Top Your Matter, One Question, Joy, Bombay and Show You the Money. In addition to his work, Wizkid has collaborated with several other artists and was featured on the hits Girl, Fine Lady, Sexy Mama, Slow Down, The Matter, Pull Over. Following the release of his studio album and expiration of his 5-year recording contract. On 1 March 2017, Billboard magazine reported that Wizkid signed a deal with RCA Records. The deal was first reported by media outlets in September 2016. The chairman and CEO of RCA Records, Peter Edge, somewhat confirmed the signing while speaking to Music Business Worldwide in January 2017 and he was ranked 5th on Forbes and Channel Os 2013 list of the Top 10 Richest/Bankable African Artists. In February 2014, Wizkid became the first ever Nigerian musician to have over 1 million followers on Twitter, Wizkid was born on 16 July 1990 in Surulere, a residential and commercial area of Lagos. In a 2012 radio interview with Tim Westwood, he said that his father has three wives, Wizkid started singing at age 11 and went by the stage name Lil Prinz until 2006. During an interview with Adesope of Factory 78 TV, Wizkid described his life in a nutshell and he said he formed a group called the Glorious Five with a couple of his church friends. The group managed to release an album prior to disbanding, Wizkid later met OJB Jezreel, a record producer who prevented him from recording for a year. While visiting OBJs PointBeat Studios frequently, he watched 2 Face Idibia record songs for his Grass 2 Grace album and he was also present during the recording sessions for Sound Sultans debut album, Jagbajantis. Wizkid cited Naeto C as one of the people who mentored and coached him when he was 15 years old, Wizkid also told Factory 78 TV that his parents werent receptive of his music from the onset. In order to gain his fathers trust, he had to work hard, Wizkid co-wrote Banky Ws Omoge You Too Much, a song off the The W Experience album
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Child prodigy
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In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer. Child prodigies are rare, and, in domains, there are no child prodigies at all. Prodigiousness in childhood does not always predict adult eminence, the term Wunderkind is sometimes used as a synonym for prodigy, particularly in media accounts. Wunderkind also is used to recognize those who achieve success and acclaim early in their adult careers, PET scans performed on several mathematics prodigies have suggested that they think in terms of long-term working memory. This memory, specific to a field of expertise, is capable of holding relevant information for extended periods, the PET scans also answer questions about which specific areas of the brain associate themselves with manipulating numbers. One subject never excelled as a child in mathematics, but he taught himself algorithms and tricks for calculatory speed and his brain, compared to six other controls, was studied using the PET scan, revealing separate areas of his brain that he manipulated to solve the complex problems. Some of the areas that he and presumably prodigies use are brain sectors dealing in visual and spatial memory, as well as visual mental imagery. Other areas of the brain showed use by the subject, including a sector of the brain related to childlike finger counting. Citing extensive imaging evidence, Vandervert first proposed this approach in two publications appeared in 2003. In addition to imaging evidence, Vanderverts approach is supported by the award winning studies of the cerebellum by Masao Ito. Some researchers believe that prodigious talent tends to arise as a result of the talent of the child. Others believe that the environment plays the dominant role, many times in obvious ways, but on the other hand George Frideric Handel was an example of the natural talent. He had discovered such a strong propensity to music, that his father who intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed. He strictly forbade him to meddle with any musical instrument but Handel found means to get a little clavichord privately conveyd to a room at the top of the house, to this room he constantly stole when the family was asleep. Despite his fathers opposition, Handel became a performer on the harpsichord. Chess prodigy List of child prodigies List of music prodigies Gifted education Giftedness Late bloomer Malleable intelligence Polymath Savant syndrome Ellenberg, the Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses. How working memory and the cerebellum collaborate to produce creativity and innovation, the Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs. Notebook, Child Prodigies, CBS News Online, YouTube, February 26,2010
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Wizkid (band)
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The band produced their first track, entitled Take Me. Love Me in the summer of 1996 at the TNT studios in East London, the music was distributed under the WKP/Chessroom label. The band performed their style of music in and around the London club scene until their split in late 1997, bradley G went on to launch his solo career as a musician and record producer, he later collaborated with Keif in a duo act known as Brief
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WizKids
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WizKids/NECA, LLC is an American company based in New Jersey that first made its mark in the game industry producing collectible miniatures wargames. WizKids was purchased by and is a subsidiary of National Entertainment Collectibles Association, the company was founded in 2000 by Jordan Weisman, a veteran of the game company FASA. It was purchased by sports-card manufacturer Topps, Inc. in 2003, WizKids was acquired by NECA in September 2009. Their last CMG was Halo ActionClix, released in August 2007, WizKids was founded in 2000 by Jordan Weisman, previously of FASA, to publish Mage Knight. Mage Knight was the first collectible miniatures game, in 2001 the company went from being virtual to having its own office in Bellevue, WA. Employees had previously spread through Washington, Illinois, and Missouri. Mage Knight was selling as fast as it could be made, though they proved less successful, WizKids also produced the short-lived CMGs Crimson Skies, Shadowrun Duels, and Creepy Freaks, as well as a baseball-themed CMG called MLB SportsClix. A CMG called ToonClix was announced in March 2006, but canceled before it was released, by 2007, WizKids was also calling some of their releases involving CSG elements PocketModel games, beginning with the Star Wars PocketModel game. In 2005, WizKids released their first collectible card game, High Stakes Drifter, in May 2006, they released their second CCG, a licensed game based on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica TV series. The company also owned the rights to the role-playing games Shadowrun and Classic Battletech, later in 2007, the franchise was licensed to InMediaRes, the games publisher. A game created by the company called Zypods had a limited release, the Topps Company announced on Monday, Nov.102008 that it would be closing down WizKids and discontinuing product lines including HeroClix. Topps CEO Scott Silverstein commented This was a difficult decision. At the July 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, National Entertainment Collectibles Association was showing off a Thor figure for Heroclix, on September 14,2009, NECA announced that they had purchased the assets of WizKids from The Topps Company. NECA will be continuing the HeroClix family of games under the WizKids brand, the WizKids assets sold did not include Shadowrun and Battletech, which were retained by Topps Inc. The Buy It By the Brick retail promotion returned with the Marvel HeroClix, unlike previous offerings, the promotional figure was available with the 10-pack brick purchase at retail locations, rather than through mail-in redemption. With the following set DC HeroClix, Brave and the Bold the promotional figure returned to redemption through WizKids/NECA, in April 2013, WizKids announced that they would be working with MFV in order to release TabApp Elite. This helped to integrate figures with the Combat Dial System into digital form, releases for TabApp include the sort of comic book properties that WizKids is known for, such as Spider-Man, Man of Steel, and others. Beginning with The Infinity Gauntlet in 2012, WizKids began to implement Storyline Organized Play programs and these programs would let gamers go to their local store once a month to play in an event that built up to a grand finale
